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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 78. 



was aftei'wards known, he repeats the same state- 

 ment; as if the Outer Temple was part of the 

 original property of the Knights Templars. 



I should be very glad to know what authority 

 he has for this ; because I have vei-y great doubt 

 whether the " Outer Temple" ever belonged to 

 the Kniglits Templars or to the Knights of St. 

 Jolm, or was in any manner compreliended within 

 the property. The New Temple, as the v/liole 

 property was called, belonged to Aymer de Va- 

 lence, Eai-1 of Pembroke, at the time of his death, 

 in June, 132.3. The Council of Vienna, in 1324, 

 bestowed all the lands of the Knights Templars 

 on the Knights of St. John. Since my letter to 

 you on the general subject of the Temple, and 

 L. B. L.'s obliging answer (Vol. ii., pp. 103. 123.), 

 I have been kindly furnished by IVIr. Joseph Buitt, 

 of the Chapter House, with a deed, dated June 28, 

 1324, by which the Knights of St. John granted 

 the ivhole of the New Temple, " totum messuagium 

 nostrum vocatum Novum Templum," to Hugh le 

 Despencer the younger; describing it to be lying 

 between the house (hospicium) of the Bishop of 

 Exeter towards the west, and the house of Hugo 

 de Courteneye towards the east. This shows 

 manifestly that if the Bishop of Exeter's house 

 ever belonged to the Temple, it did not at that 

 time ; and I am not aware of any earlier evidence 

 proving that the Templars ever possessed it. 



I believe, though I have not seen the record, 

 that, in the grant to Sir William Paget, temp. 

 Henry VI., it is described as the " OuterTemple;" 

 but I am inclined to think, from various circum- 

 stantial testimonies, that it was merely so called 

 because it was situate on the outside of the Temple. 



If any of your correspondents could illustrate 

 this question, or that more curious one, — when 

 the New Temple was first divided between Inner 

 and Middle, — I should feel infinitely obliged. 



Edward Foss. 



niBLIOGBAPHICAL QUERIES. 



1. Can any of your readers give me any in- 

 formation regarding a work which I find recorded 

 in a catalogue thus: — A Catalogue of above 300 

 Coins of Canute, King of Denmark and England, 



found near Kirkwall, with Specimens. 4to. London, 

 1777 ? I should like, if possible, to have a copy of 

 the title-page, the size, and the number of pages ; 

 and, if possible, the name of the compiler. 



2. I should like to find out the name of the 

 translator into English, of Pontoppidan's Natural 

 History of Norwai/, published in folio in London in 

 1755. 



3. Can any of your readers oblige me with the 

 name of the author of a controversial sermon, 

 entitled Whigs no Christians, preached at London, 

 on the anniversary of the martyrdom of Kin"- 

 Charles, in 1712-13, and published in the same 

 year ? Bopeas. 



DUTCH BOOKS PUBLISHED OUT OF THE NETHER- 

 EANDS. 



Althougli the Dutch language is now regarded 

 in foreign countries with a neglect bordering on 

 contempt, and its study, when attended to at all, 

 generally inidertaken as a work of necessity rather 

 than a labour of love, I have thouglit it would not 

 be without interest to examine to what extent it 

 was formerly cultivated (were it even chiefly by 

 Dutchmen) in foreign lands; to institute a search 

 after the productions of the Dutch mind in the 

 Dutch language brought forth on foreign soils; in 

 a word, to jiass in review the Dutch books which 

 have been published in other countries during the 

 period included between the invention of printing 

 and our own days. 



It appears to me that such a review would lead 

 to much interesting research, and would tend not 

 only to illustrate our literature, but also to clear 

 up many points still obscure in our national, and 

 more especially in our ecclesiastical, history. 



The review which I propose would be limited, 

 in the first instance, to the formation of an exact 

 and complete list of such exotic works, with the 

 addition of such notes as I might be able to add. 

 A more experienced hand may then make use of 

 these materials to form a more perfect treatise on 

 this portion of our literature. 



In execution of this plan I have ah-eady com- 

 piled a list of names of books and authors ; these 

 have been gathered partly from an examination of 

 the works themselves, partly from catalogues and 

 other sources where such works are mentioned. 

 Now, however, as my resources are nearly ex- 

 hausted, and my labours by no means complete, I 

 take the liberty to lay my plan before those who 

 may be disposed to concur with me, those who 

 may be able to procure me information, those 

 who have the possession or the care of libraries in 

 which such books are to be found, and of which 1 

 catalogues have not been printed; and, for the end 

 I have iu view, I invite them all to help me in 

 the completion of my worlc. The editors of the ; 

 Ncworscher have consented to open their columns 

 to contributors. To spare needless trouble, I wish I 

 it to be distinctly understood that I do not include 

 any works published in Belgium, or in the colonies 

 now or formerly in our possession. Martinus. 



Amsterdam, Maith 11. 1851. 



WHAT WAS THE COUNTRY OF THE ANGLES ? 



What country was inhabited by the Angles be- 

 fore they occupied Britain ? Adam of Bremen 

 {Hist. Eccl. c. 3.) says : 



" Igltur Saxonc; primo circa Illicnum setles habitant 

 et vocati sunt Aiigli quorum pars inde veniens in 

 Britaiiniam, etc," 



